Bernardine Dohrn

Bernardine Dohrn (12 January 1942-) was an American communist and a major leader of the Weather Underground terrorist group during the 1960s and 1970s. Dohrn was married to Bill Ayers, another leader of the group.

Biography
Bernardine Ohrnstein was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 12 January 1942 to a Jewish father and a Swedish mother, and she was a brilliant student, a cheerleader, and editor of the school newspaper at Whitefish Bay High School. In 1963, she graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science, and she received her juris doctor from the University of Chicago Law School in 1967. Dohrn worked with Martin Luther King, Jr. as a student, and she became involved with students rights advocacy during the late 1960s. On 18 June 1969, Dohrn and ten other Students for a Democratic Society activists released a manifesto that stated that the goal of revolution was the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world (world communism). Dohrn became a leader of the Weather Underground faction of the SDS, and she issued a "declaration of a state of war" against the US government in May 1970. In 1969, she was arrested for drug possession, and she was added to the FBI's Most Wanted List in 1970 due to Weather Underground's several attacks against police stations and federal buildings.

Dohrn decided to come out of hiding after the end of the Vietnam War and the decline of the Weathermen campaign, and she worked at the Sidley Austin law firm in Chicago, Illinois during the 1980s. In 1991, she became a professor at Northwestern University School of Law, and she married fellow revolutionary Bill Ayers. Dohrn still held onto her communist views as an adult, and she opposed the US government, accusing it of terrorism even under the Obama administration in the 2010s.